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Yes, the future is an unknown beast. To me I consider consciousness central to what makes us human, to what makes us truly alive. As we don't fully comprehend consciousness it is hard to see how this will impact AI development. We will find out in due time.

Agree, the consciousness is the difficult part :)

Yes, and I think developments in the very near future will show us a lot. We live in interesting times.

We live in interesting times.

Thats for sure :)